Category : politics

TweetWhile Alabama native and basketball legend Charles Barkley was elated at Republican Roy Moore’s defeat in the state’s special election – calling it “a great night for Alabama” – he also warned Democrats. When CNN host Jake Tapper asked him whether he had a message for President Trump, who backed ...

TweetScreen Shot 2017-12-12 at 22417 PM Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that he won’t vote to add to the “massive” national debt. “I cannot in good conscience vote to add more to the already massive $20 trillion debt. I promised Kentucky to vote against reckless, deficit spending and ...

TweetCongress is moving steadily toward passage of a Republican tax reform bill that President Donald Trump almost certainly will sign when it reaches his desk, but tensions remain among advocacy groups seeking to drain the Washington swamp, thanks to a provision on the “death tax.” Senate and House conferees are ...

TweetPresident Donald Trump signed a $700 billion defense expansion on Tuesday—but it’s unclear how he’ll pay for it or how the huge boost to defense spending will not also add to the national deficit. A 2011 law capped 2018 defense spending at $549 billion—far below the number Trump approved with ...

TweetThursday’s the day that the Trump administration will overturn former President Obama’s rules protecting consumers from greedy telecom companies manipulating internet access and pricing. I got a preview of what’s to come over the weekend as my Spectrum internet bill soared by 20 percent — and as I encountered the ...

TweetThat really short honeymoon is over. Gov. Chris Christie and Gov.-elect Phil Murphy are at odds over the incoming governor’s request that Christie refrain from spending extra money or doing anything to worsen the state’s finances during his final month in office. Murphy’s 14-item request came in the form of ...

TweetSAN FRANCISCO — Edwin Mah Lee, the 43rd mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, died at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, according to reports. San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed immediately becomes acting mayor, according to city charter rules. A statement issued by the city ...

TweetJulian Assange WASHINGTON – The Central Intelligence Agency knows the identities of the people who leaked DNC emails to the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks during the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign, a former CIA officer contends. Fred Rustmann, who served as an operations officer in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service ...

TweetThe National Sheriffs’ Association came out in favor of the Department of Justice Thursday in Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ push to withhold funds from Chicago and other sanctuary cities. The sheriffs’ association—which represents more than 3,000 sheriffs nationwide—will file an amicus brief in support of the DOJ in ongoing litigation ...

TweetA coffee shop owner gave college Republicans five minutes to get out of the shop because of their MAGA hats, according to a Friday video. The unnamed owner of Rodrigue’s Coffee at Fordham University in New York kicked the college Republicans out because ...

TweetChelsea Handler, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Less than a week after calling her a “harlot,” Chelsea Handler went after White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to tease a Friday episode of her Netflix show. Handler had an impersonator show up and do a mock makeup tutorial. The impersonator played Sanders ...